Handover to next year's teacher?

[MissPB]

I am wondering what goes in to handing over a class of children to the next teacher as the class goes into the next year (Y1 to Y2 for example).

Do the teachers discuss each child, strengths/weaknesses etc or is this for the new teacher to discover?

Yes, there should be a handover meeting where the current teacher goes through each child, and talks briefly about strengths/weaknesses, and particular friends, interests, any issues from during the year etc (and warns about the parents if they are the ones that are the issue!!)
However once they get to the class in Sep, they have usually changed a fair bit, so new teacher would prob only have it to refer to if they needed to (ie, if there is an issue/prob, they will look back to see if it stemmed from year before) and they will do their own little assessments to work out where the children are, not replying on where they were in July.
Hope that helps :)

thank you it is very helpful (curious parent!)

I don't like to know too much - fresh start and all that! SEN children have a more in-depth handover though. I do get all their end of year assessment data, and their work portfolios which I don't get around to looking at.

Our handover is only about 20 minutes so it's mainly about ability groups, which children to keep apart, behaviour issues, medical issues, sen and difficult parents.

I would love to be a fly on the wall, no problems with what they might say about my daughter as she tends to be good and hard working but can only imagine them saying things like 'mum tries to be helpful but....'

and most classes will have one or two practice days probably, going in to the new class to get the 'feel' of it. Also, of course, in the transition to secondary, something similar. In my experience these sort of things are much more considerate to the child, and better handled than they used to be.

We are currently having handover talks between teachers and TAs.
I am a HLTA and I am meeting next week with the current Y1 TAs, along with the Y2 TAs to discuss each child in detail. The teachers have similar meetings, plus there is a group meeting. All paper work is passed over too, including any interventions that have taken place, any assessments known, etc.

We are a very inclusive school so we have very mixed intakes regards SN, learning difficulties, BME/EAL, etc. Some classes need more time than others.

I shall be handing over my year ones, to year two very soon!

The teachers arrange their own handover meetings, where each child is discussed openly and nothing is hidden. Their ability level is discussed, how hard working (or not!) they are, their behaviour, how much support they get at home, what their living arrangements are, "watch out for that mum, she's a fruit-loop", whether there are any child protection concerns logged, whether they do their homework or not, friendship groups.
Basically, everything!